From: john zeeb <zeeb.tucson@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 8, 2020 10:35 PM
Subject: What ! ANOTHER !! replacement for casting call from info@orientation.theater
Could you be
Coronado ?
Voice sounds like middle aged Mexicano, speaks English (with an
accent)
This rafter, who has a performance in mind to set the record straight
about the first Europeans to open up the new world from Mexico City to Kansas
happens to start shooting the breeze with
a southern Arizona watercolorist and a Chinese rockhound/would-be astronaut
he meets at Phantom Ranch (a real place at the bottom of Grand Canyon)
in what becomes the script for an audio book on the web,
print version of which is nearing completion at
grandcanyonmeetup.com
$20/hour in Tucson is where we'll record it
on your schedule, no memorization needed.
Opportunity to translate & produce the site & audio in Spanish later.
Auditioning is really tough: Pick up your cellphone and call 520 485 9966
to recite the following line the way you might play it.
Also kindly recite your phone & email contact info.
Who would've thought I'd get into all this with some broad I wash up to on a sand bar. —
Look, when Columbus arrived in the Caribbean, sure, he made the Indians work thesugarcane he brought.
But they dropped like flies, mostly from diseases he didn't even know he'd brought.
This really ticked off a Dominican brother in his crew who thought they were to blame, and his writings made it to the Emperor. Same thing happened to Cortes, and Pizarro, and by the time Coronado got his turn, the Emperor required the explorers and settlersto treat the Indians nice. That's why Coronado got the job and Cortes didn't.
And he tried like hell to do what the Emperor said: He traded with the Indians along the way for food; he didn't just take it. And though they had horses on this trip, they walked anyway because the Indian allies who volunteered weren't supposed to carry stuft That was the horses' job.
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